The Blue Book Of Suffrage

WOMAN SUFFRAGE: Arguments and Results

By Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, et al.

[1912]

First edition of this collection of booklets issued by the National Woman Suffrage Association, in the scarce dust jacket and with an inserted publisher's notice listing new legislative gains made in the year since publication.

Very good plus in good jacket.

Price: $800.00

WOMAN SUFFRAGE: Arguments and Results

"DO YOU KNOW one single sound, logical reason why the intelligence and individuality of women should not entitle them to the rights and privileges of self-government?" (Catt)

The volume was edited by Frances Maule Björkman, socialist and member of the Heterodoxy feminist debating club of Greenwich Village, and Annie G. Porritt, a follower of Alice Paul and the National Women's Party. Their names, along with the informal title "The Blue Book," would later appear on the title page of the revised edition.

Full contents include: "Why Women Should Vote," by Jane Addams; "Objections Answered: Why Should Women Vote?" by Alice Stone Blackwell; "Where Women Vote," by Björkman; "Do You Know," by Carrie Chapman Catt; "A Comon-Sense View of Woman Suffrage," by Jesse Lynch Williams; "Why Women Want to Vote," by Björkman; "Measuring Up Equal Suffrage: An Authoritative Estimate of Results in Chicago," by George Creel and Ben B. Lindsey; and "Eminent Opinions on Woman Suffrage," a selection of quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, and many other notable figures. A landmark publication in US political history.

Read more: Franklin, The Case for Woman Suffrage: A Bibliography.

The Object

New York: National Woman Suffrage Association, [1912]. Woman suffrage: arguments and results. A collection of eight popular booklets covering together practically the entire field of suffrage claims and evidence. designed especially for the convenience of suffrage speakers and writers and for the use of debaters and libraries. 6'' x 3.5''. Original blue cloth. In original brown printed dust jacket. Publisher's "IMPORTANT NOTICE" laid in, noting several legal changes between the book's 1912 publication and June 1913. Moderate chipping to jacket, with repairs to spine verso. Light edgewear to boards, offsetting to endpapers.

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